Lesson Plan

Australian Curriculum Learning Area: Arts

Year level: Grade 1
Lesson Title: Drama
Learning Outcomes:
The learning outcomes of this lesson are:
- For students to develop and apply creative and critical thinking to a drama activity
Success Criteria:
Were students actively engaged in the warm-up activity? Did students engage in conversation
and freely express ideas during the main activity? Did all groups complete their drama and
expression activity in the allotted time?
Curriculum Content:
Arts Curriculum

creativity, critical thinking, aesthetic knowledge and understanding about arts practices,
through making and responding to artworks with increasing self-confidence

Teaching and Learning Sequence:

Resources:

1. Introduce the lesson by explaining that todays Tounge Twisters

activities will be based around Drama and
Photo Scenarios (Small Group)
expression.
- Shopping
2. Gather students to the circle and explain the
- Beach
warm up activity Trees, Toilets and Traffic
- Play Ground
Lights.
- Classroom
-Trees, Toilets and Traffic Lights is an activity
- Restaurant
where students are to move around the room
- Bed
until the teacher calls out either trees, toilets or
- Party
traffic lights. Once this happens, the students
- Under the Sea
must rush to form whatever is called. Whoever
is left standing is out.
3. Once the warm up activity is completed, ask Photo Scenarios (Whole Class)
- At the Zoo
students to sit in a circle and conduct the
Tongue Twister activity:
-The Tongue Twister activity is where students
simply attempt to mimic the tongue twisters:
Irish Wrist Watch; Red Leather Yellow Leather;
Toy Boat Toy Boat; Red Blood Bad Blood.
4. Students are to be organised into their groups
again to complete the Real Life Picture activity:
-The Real Life Picture activity is where students
have to recreate a picture that they are given

and create it using only themselves and any

props they can find in the classroom. They then
present these stills and the audience has to
guess what the picture is of. This activity can be
repeated twice.
5. Once the students are settled back into the
classroom, explain that we will do a whole class
Picture recreation.
6. Give feedback on students and highlight the
positive aspects.
7. Thank students for their time and transition
them to the next class.
Notes on Lesson: